Sri Lanka Freedom Party

The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) is a social democratic political party in Sri Lanka that was founded on 2 September 1951 by S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike. The party first came to power in 1956 and was in power in Parliament from 1956 to 1960, 1960 to 1965, 1970 to 1977, 1994 to 2001, and from 2004; from 1994 to 2015, it also held the presidency. The party had a democratic socialist and progressive economic agenda and was often associated with Sinhalese nationalist political parties, and it was rivals with the United National Party.